While the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way Monday for expanded sports betting, the Michigan Legislature has plenty of proposals, but no concrete action yet on expanding sports gambling in the state.

There are currently eight bills that would expand gambling in the state, including several that would legalize sports betting and wagers on fantasy sports.

Four have gotten votes in committee — three that would allow Internet gambling and another that would legalize fantasy sports betting — but none have gotten votes in either the full House of Representatives or the Senate.

Four others, including three that would legalize sports betting and allow the Michigan Lottery to handle those wagers and another fantasy sports betting bill, haven’t gotten hearings yet in committee.

The Supreme Court ruling Monday on a New Jersey case may change the equation in Lansing.

The justices ruled 7-2 that a 25-year-old federal law that has effectively prohibited sports betting outside Nevada by forcing states to keep prohibitions on the books is unconstitutional. The ruling could set the stage for other states to expand legalized gambling as a source of government revenue.

State Rep. Robert Kosowski, D-Westland, said he was jumping with excitement after hearing of the Supreme Court's ruling.

"This is a huge win for Michigan," said Kosowski, who sponsored the bills that would allow for people to place sports bets in casinos or at state lottery terminals. "We’re finally allowed to do something that only a few states can do. Now it’s an even playing field and we'll have a source of revenues to fix the roads and better the state's schools."

Sen. Mike Kowall, R-White Lake, who has sponsored legislation that would allow for online gaming, said the decision gives the state a better vision on how it can move forward with more gaming allowed.

“It’s a matter now that the governor doesn’t have that argument anymore,” he said. “I think it’s a good idea to put rules and regulations in place so kids can’t gamble online. It’s not necessarily something I would encourage anyone to do, but if it’s being done out there, it should be done legally and the proper taxes being collected.”

Online gambling on things like poker could bring in $5 million in revenues in the first year, “but after that, it could be a substantial amount that could to go roads and education,” Kowall said.

Sports betting would be a different animal, though. Under the constitutional amendment that was approved by voters in 2004 to allow for the three casinos in Detroit, any further expansion of gambling would have to go before voters.

“Sports betting is a little bit different. That’s a conversation that we’ll have to have,” Kowall said.

But Kosowski said that if the Legislature passed a bill that would allow for wagers on sports in casinos, that shouldn't be considered an expansion of gaming, just an added attraction at the casinos.

"Look at what we voted on before. It doesn’t say blackjack or poker. It said gambling, So gambling is already legal, why not just add sports?" Kosowski said. "The controversy I hear is that it's all bad. But then you have to say that the lottery is bad too."

Officials at Detroit's casinos said the ruling was a positive step forward.

“We are presently working with both gaming regulators and the Michigan Legislature to quickly bring sports wagering to the state on terms, including an appropriate tax rate, that will include a robust legal marketplace in Michigan," MGM Grand Detroit’s corporate owner, MGM Resorts International, said in a statement.

And Matt Cullen, chief executive officer of JACK Entertainment, which operates the Greektown Casino, said officials support Michigan moving forward with sports betting at casinos, but that working through the language of a proposal will be a key.

"The detailed state regulations that will be written in response to the Supreme Court’s decision will determine the safety and viability of this potential amenity," he said in a statement. "Certainly there is significant guest interest in sports betting being available at our facilities.”

A House Fiscal Agency analysis of the legislation said that sports betting in Detroit's three casinos could generate up to $30 million in gross receipts, leading to $2.4 million annually in tax revenues to the State School Aid Fund from the state's 8.1% gambling tax, and $3.3 million a year from Detroit's 10.9% casino wagering tax.

Michigan also has 23 American Indian tribal casinos that are sovereign nations governed by the National Indian Gaming Commission. Those casinos do have compacts with the state, however, that deal with issues such as the revenue that will come to the state from the casinos. Those compacts would likely have to be renegotiated if sports betting was legalized in Michigan.

Kosowski said he expects the House Regulatory Reform Committee to quickly take up the bills that would legalize sports betting in the state. But that doesn't guarantee a positive vote in the full House or Senate, where members might hesitate to take up more gambling in the state, especially in an election year.